Example sentences of "and taken [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 2 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 3 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 4 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 5 | This medical textbook , by Henry Gray , was first published by J.W. Parker in 1858 and taken over by Longman in 1863 . |
| 6 | After the Reformation it was not unusual for these charnels to be cleared and taken over by prominent local families as their burial vault , as happened at Saffron Walden and Thaxted , both in Essex . |
| 7 | When was the first time you were in the dark , locked in and taken over by someone else ? |
| 8 | As editor of The Colonial Magazine , Kingston 's Magazine and The Union Jack ( the last-named started in 1880 , the year of his death , and taken over by Henty ) , Kingston could claim all the space he needed to express his views on the importance of colonisation and use the experience he gained from working for the Colonial Land and Emigration Board . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've missed a crucial piece of information , but my understanding is that the TARDIS has been infiltrated and taken over by Pool . ’ |
| 10 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 11 | There is no such ring in the Reeve 's Tale , but it is hard not to notice that the motif seems to have been displaced and taken over by Absolon as he approaches Alison 's window for the second time that night , in order to deceive her : A sure example of intertextual inference is found in John 's use of the cradle trick ; he envies Alayn 's success with Malyne , and decides he will " " arise and auntre [ chance ] it " " himself . |
| 12 | Aged sixteen , he rides into battle against white soldiers but is captured , and taken in by Reverend Silas Pendrake ( Thayer David ) and his wife ( Faye Dunaway ) . |
| 13 | Mrs Mellor was chauffeur driven to the Rock and taken back by car after having lunch with the boat party . |